DILI: Pregnant women in Timor-Leste should feel safe to get Covid-19 vaccine made by Sinovac or Pfizer because there is more real-world data to show they are safe, Timor-Leste’s World Health Organisation Representative Arvind Mathur said on Friday.
DILI:Timor-Leste’s National Parliament is preparing changes to the law that will prohibit children from working, the President of the Commission F Neo da Silva Ximenes said.
DILI: Timor-Leste has administered more than 245,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday, health authorities said.
DILI: Moving to prevent introduction of the Delta COVID-19 variant, Timor-Leste said on Friday it would impose five day mandatory quarantine on all travellers coming from countries where the highly transmittable variant has been detected.
DILI – Timorese officials moved to calm public fears on Friday after confirming a woman in Bobonaro had died after a receiving a COVID-19 vaccine last week.
DILI:Major General Lere Anan Timur said on Monday he would run in Timor-Leste’s Presidential election in 2022 if he gets the backing of independence leader and former President Xanana Gusmao and comrades.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s COVID-19 taskforce urged the government on Thursday to close the country’s land and sea borders for two weeks in response to a surge in COVID-19 Delta Virus cases in neighbouring countries.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s youth party KHUNTO has declared it will back Vice Prime Minister Armanda Berta as a candidate in next year’s President of Republic election.
DILI: Civil Society leaders and former Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta have expressed their dismay at Timor-Leste’s decision to abstain from voting on the United Nation's resolution against Myanmar's military coup, labelling the move a “vote of shame” and demanding accountability over who made the decision.
DILI: National Parliament has told its members that they will not be allowed to work in the field if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination without legitimate health reasons,
DILI: Dili will exit a COVID-19 lockdown on Thursday night, government authorities said, although restrictions on travel from the city to municipalities would likely remain for another week.
DILI: Timor-Leste on Wednesday has agreed to maintain its sanitary fences in Dili, Baucau, Bobanaro and Covalima, remove the one in Viqueque, while also strengthening its vaccination campaign against the fast-moving coronavirus.
DILI: Timor-Leste on Wednesday has agreed to maintain its sanitary fences in Dili, Baucau, Bobanaro and Covalima, remove the one in Viqueque, while also strengthening its vaccination campaign against the fast-moving coronavirus.
DILI: Timor-Leste on Tuesday reported another death of a person infected with the COVID-19, an 86-year old man, bringing the total number of deaths to 18 since the pandemic started, the Integrated Centre for Crisis Management (IGC) reported.